Stealing is not the same as making an illegitimate copy of something. Don't try equating copyright infringement with shoplifting or stealing cars or breaking into homes and taking personal possessions. That's like equating verbal abuse with murder -- they're not the same, no matter how many times you say it is.

I wonder if there is now any relation between the game and the series.

No.

Personally, though, I think this new name is unimaginably awful. "IG3" has a nice ring to it, and "Imperium Galactica" is quite a cool name. "Galaxy Andromeda" just brings to mind crappy budget sci-fi (like, um, Andromeda), which from what I've seen of IG3, really doesn't suit it.

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The Space Sim genere is in DESPERATE need of a...well, good ole' space sim.

I-War 2 is the last one I can think of. It was pretty good, if a little slow at times.

I feel the need for something chunkier now, though. I'm sure there much be a nice middle-ground somewhere between piddling little fighters and huge-ass capital ships.. Somewhere you can avoid turning into Homeworld without going down the rather well traveled flight-sim-in-space route.

A good storyline would be nice for a change too. I-War 2 wasn't bad, but..

The scale in the demo was so... wrong, I've seen more believable cartoons. They could have used flat shaded untextured polygons and not made it look as bad as the stupid scale they use. Don't people know how big planets are?

Then there's the rather lacklustre weapons (little blobs of <insert primary colour>, woopee), the fairly poor shield effects, the boring textures on the ships (one flat overdone metal effect), the dodgy explosion effects (that, um, "asteroid" is a perfect example. Never mind that it doesn't need explosions in the first place, but it's *so* obviously sprite based).

The low texture detail in the demo didn't help either.

The graphics in the playable demo are better than any other 3D space RTS.. including IG3 and ORB.

Not seen the playable demo yet. If it's not improved significantly over the demo, I'm afraid I think you're mad, sorry

There's very little oppertunity for sniping; 99.999% of the time you're running down corridors with a shotgun.

"Sniper" is apparantly the handle for your character as a hitman; only given that this "sniper" seems to be more interested in mass murder than clean kills, I fail to see where a name like that would come from.

Don't get this game expecting something like Hitman 2; get this game expecting something like NOLF, without the AI, humour, graphics, deep involving story, gadgets, and challange.